Child language: adults speak differently to children in at least 10 different languages
The phenomenon of infant-director speech is universal, or the language used with babies with a forced elongation of the vowels (such as the one used in the film « Listen whoever speaks » by Paolo Villaggio, who doubled a child
In the movie «Feel who speaks » Paolo Villaggio doubled a newborn to which adults turned to what in medical terms are called IDS, acronym of Infant-Directed SpeechMeaning what language used with babies and characterized by forced extension of the vowels because everyone is convinced that this facilitates them inlearning and in understanding the word.
Now a study just published on the Psychological Bullettin has shown that the dubbing by Paolo Villaggio was somewhat likely Because the phenomenon of the Ids is universal.
The study
From the study, conducted by researchers from the International Research Center for Neurointelligence of the University of Tokyo and researchers from the Aarhus University of Amsterdam, directed by Irena Lovčević, the Phenomenon of the IDS is present in all ten countries analyzed including the United States, where that film is set.
That special language between mom and son
On the other hand, the IDS is a generalization of the so -called « Mommese « said in English Motherese (from mother), which means mom and indicates it Special language that settles between mother and son Since their first meeting after childbirth, focused on facilitating mutual recognition and smile in the baby. Made of Simple and slow words but repeated, It is used unconsciously by the mother to adapt to the innate empathic understanding of the child so as to enrich her verbal repertoire.
More adequate language
The Nippo-Dutch study has shown that in moms of ten different countries of the world vowels are excessively dilatedbut the differences between the methods for detecting these phonemic deformations and those of the socio-communicative environment of children of different cultures do not allow to understand what the most appropriate language is to generate a correct neonatese.
Consequently, this it does not help to improve understanding of theories on language developmentindicating the need for future functional display studies of brain areas of children in response to the Mammese and Ids.
And perhaps it would not be surprising to discover thoughts like those who doubled village in the child in front of his grandmother when he made his cuddles like: «But how does this speak? ».
